Major Git projects such as CMake have a contributor workflow that goes like:

1. Fork the main repo

2. on the fork, create a feature branch

   git checkout -b add-feature1

3. once changes accepted:

   git checkout master
   
   git remote add upstream (URL of the original remote repo, not your fork)
   
   git fetch upstream
   
   git rebase upstream/master

   Now the local master branch is up to date with the remote project.

4. update the local branch to remote master

   git checkout add-feature1
   
   git rebase master

5. This step “squashes” all your commits down to one. Be sure to make a copy of your fork directory first!

   git rebase -i HEAD~10   # or however many commits you made

   change all the “pick” of your changes to “s”, EXCEPT for the first commit you made.

6. Force push your changes to the feature branch remote.